Thanks man I appreciate the help. I probably will use a regular
expression on that 'split' step, something like $email_list = split("/,
\s*/", $data['Mail']['receiver_username']) to eliminate any spaces
following the commas.
On Dec 4, 11:40 pm, Adam Royle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One more thing, if you're not going to use a regular expression to
> split a string, you should just use:
>
> $input_usernames = explode(",", $data['Mail']['receiver_username']);
>
> Cheers,
> Adam
>
> On Dec 5, 3:38 pm, Adam Royle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I would use a single query and some array functions. This is off the
> > cuff (untested) but should work as far as I can tell. Might do it
> > slightly differently if you need the id of the User as well to do
> > further processing, but you should be able to figure out the rest
> > yourself.
>
> > $input_usernames = split(",", $data['Mail']['receiver_username']);
> > $found_usernames = $this->User->findAll( array('User.username' =>
> > $input_usernames), 'User.field' );
> > $found_usernames = Set::extract($found_usernames,
> > '{n}.User.username');
>
> > $orphan_usernames = array_diff($input_usernames, $found_usernames);
> > pr($orphan_usernames); // the list of usernames that were not found
>
> > Cheers,
> > Adam
>
> > On Dec 5, 1:15 pm, butangphp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Basically, I am writing a mailing class
>
> > > $comma = ",";
> > > if (strchr($data['Mail']['receiver_username'], $comma))
> > > {
> > > //remove the commas and create and array of usernames
> > > $email_list = split(",",
> > > $data['Mail']['receiver_username']);
>
> > > foreach ($email_list as $receivers)
> > > {
> > > $receivers_id =
> > > $this->User->getUserIdByUsername($receivers);
> > > $conditions = 'User.id = "'.$receivers_id.'"';
> > > $receivers = $this->User->field('username',
> > > $conditions);
>
> > > if ($receivers == 'FALSE')
> > > {
> > > //if one of the usernames is false, remove it and
> > > continue with the
> > > rest
> > > }
>
> > > }
>
> > > If theres a comma (and hence more than one name listed) I split the
> > > string and create an array.
> > > I need a function in order to weed out usernames that are not in the
> > > database. Any suggestions??
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